WESTFIELD — A young Westfield girl is being remembered through a STEM lab at Westfield Washington Public Library.
Today, the library dedicated their Makerspace and STEM lab to Annie Gotwald, who passed away suddenly in February.
Her family says the soon-to-be kindergartner had a special interest in outer space and planets and loved experiments. In her honor, they set up a GoFundMe to support STEM Education in Westfield.
That funding was used to create the library’s stem lab.
“We were just floored by the support the community provided us after Annie’s passing,” says Annie’s mom Lindsay Gotwald. “We wanted to pass that generosity along by investing in STEM education that was accessible to everyone in Westfield. She would have loved this new space. We couldn’t have asked for a more perfect opportunity to build her legacy.”
The space will offer drop-in projects, individual stem activities, and scheduled classes to library …